Potential bets start advertising on Facebook as 2022 campaign shifts to social media Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, former senator Antonio Trillanes IV, and many local politicians are top ad spenders on Facebook a year before the polls. The Commission on Elections is drafting rules to govern online campaigning. BY CHERRY SALAZAR May 11, 2021 | 05:00:00 PM
Potential candidates have started advertising on Facebook more than a year before the May 2022 elections, spending several thousand to a few million pesos since August 2020, data from the social media platform showed.
A significant shift to online campaigning is expected during the 2022 elections, especially with mobility restrictions imposed during the pandemic, although in-person activities will remain a staple of the campaign, according to Eric Alvia, secretary general of poll watchdog National Citizens Movement for Free Electi
Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia
(Cong. Gwen Garcia Facebook page / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
Garcia said she is more needed by Cebu especially that the province is still trying to recover from the ill-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In rejecting the call of the “Gwen for Senator: Ang Probinsyana, Run Gwen Run” movement, Garcia announced that she will seek reelection in next year’s elections.
“I have no intentions whatsoever of seeking national office. Read my lips, I’m running for governor again because I feel I am more needed here in the province of Cebu at this time and in the next years that will follow as we tried to recover from this pandemic,” Garcia said.
SunStar Group urges Gwen to run for Senate
NO THANKS. In a press conference Thursday, April 29, 2021, Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia (left) says she has no plans to run for senator in next year’s elections, despite the endorsement of a multi-sectoral group. Her brother, Deputy Speaker Pablo John Garcia, also questions the sincerity of the group endorsing his sister’s candidacy for the Senate. / Arvie Veloso
+ April 29, 2021 A MULTI-sectoral group in Cebu has launched a private initiative urging Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia to run for senator in the May 2022 national elections.
However, Garcia remained steadfast in her stand not to seek a higher post next year.
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It’s still Mactan Cebu International Airport, says PJ. (File photo)
+ IT WILL still be named Mactan- Cebu International Airport.
Rep. Pablo John “PJ” Garcia (Cebu, 3rd) clarified this after news items in some local dailies claimed that House Bill 8986, approved on third reading before Congress went on recess on March 18, seeks to rename the airport to Lapulapu International Airport.
Garcia said the bill merely seeks to name the domestic and international terminals of the airport to Lapulapu Domestic Terminal and Lapulapu International Terminal, while retaining the name Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) for the entire facility itself.
He added that this is a substitute bill following a compromise brokered by Speaker Lord Allan Velasco and Committee on Transportation Chairman Rep. Edgar Sarmiento (Samar, 1st District) between the proponents, led by Rep. Paz Radaza of Lapu-Lapu City, and the opponents of the bill, led by Garcia.